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“I don’t intend to go into that. The history had been preying on his mind for an extremely long time compounded with other stresses including the loss of a toddler causing him to take extreme measures.

The Recorder of Middlesbrough Judge Simon Bourne-Arton QC told Probert, who appeared over a videolink from Holme House Prison, Stockton, that the offences were aggravated by taking place in Mr Waller’s home.

The judge added: “Clearly there was a long history between you and your victim.

“It was on any view a sustained attack, you inflicted a stab wound and you bit part of his ear off and there was blood spattered on the walls.”

Probert, of Cardinal Grove, Fairfield, Stockton, was jailed for 10 years and five months after he pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent and possessing a knife.